Monday, February 11, 2013

Hungary Week 28

Hey everyone!

What an eventful week. There is only one
more full week with my stud of a companion, Gould elder, so I better make it
count! We are being so blessed for our determination and work, I just
can't help but smile.

The next few weeks will be ones to
remember. I will see my first baptism in two weeks back in Veszprém, the
week after that I will be able to see our investigator in the waters of baptism
here in Szombathely, the man and his wife will be married after his surgery
tomorrow and we will see him into the waters of baptism shortly after and the
list goes on and on (or so we hope). I am just smiling every step of the
way.

Elder Gould got sick with some kind of cold this
week though. He was a trooper for so long, but it was pretty bad.
He pushed through most of Saturday, but when Sunday hit he got worse. We
made it to church and the two programs following church, but I realized that he
just needed to get home and rest. So with the help of the other elders,
we went on splits, Elder Gould got his rest and we were still able to take part
in a family home evening with a local part member family. Good news is
that rest was exactly what Gould elder needed. He woke up this morning
feeling much better. We are holding a family home evening
tonight, but other than that Gould
elder is going to rest and get ready to make this week one to remember.

We had such an amazing experience this week that
I would love to share. We had a fairly open day and so as we prayed, we
were prompted to go tracting or simply put, go door to door. We searched
the map and prayerfully determined where the Lord wanted us to go. We
tracted for the next two hours straight not to hand out a single Book of
Mormon. As it was, we were a little surprised due to the promptings in
which we received. To our surprise, as soon as we left the building, we
ran into 4, almost consecutive, people who gratefully accepted a Book of
Mormon, including an employee at a local candy shop (She gave us some goodies
and we gave her a Book of Mormon). To our surprise, once again, we
received the prompting to go tracting AGAIN later that night between 8-9
p.m. We had a few good
conversations and gave our information to a few people, but we didn't find much
success. As we were walking to and from the ten story buildings, we were
able to run into 3 more extremely open people.

I just found it so interesting. We just happened
to be in the right place at the right time. We were prompted to go
tracting, but maybe it wasn't the Lords intention for us to find those people
as we tracted. I wouldn't say it is because "tracting doesn't
work." I believe it just happened like this so we could be in the
right place at the right time. Sometimes we are called to a work with
another purpose in mind. It just brings to surface the importance of
always looking for the unexpected.

Every day is an adventure. There is always
something unexpected waiting around the corner. We knock many doors,
speak to countless people on the street, teach English like one may in a
school, meet with and strengthen countless members, but in the end my daily
life is so much more. I do all I do to find that one person that is
waiting for this amazing message to change their lives. I just couldn't
be more humbled and grateful for the opportunities I have received and the
lives I have been able to witness CHANGE. There is no greater joy than
this.